Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.] Storm and Accident by Lightning
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 November 1861 · page 2
DURING the afternoon of Friday a storm broke over the town which, although of short duration, was accompanied with lightning as intensely vivid as we ever recollect to have seen. One flash was…
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Empire · Monday 25 November 1861 · page 8
ON Tuesday, a violent thunderstorm passed over Queen. beysn, accompanied with very heavy rain and bail, and a tempestuous wind. The weather for two or three days had been opprescively hot and sultry, so that the approach…
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Empire · Tuesday 26 November 1861 · page 2
THE following interesting account of the Great Eastern's disaster is given by a passenger:- QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR, CORK, Tuesday, September 17.—To the great delight of ourselves…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 December 1861 · page 6
A GENTLEMAN from the country informs [?] that on Wednesday, the 11th instant, about one o'clock in the day, a terrific fall of hall and ice took place, commencing in the Southern disrict, and travelling westward. The morning had been oppressively hot,…
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Empire · Wednesday 18 December 1861 · page 4
The telegraphic despatches from Montpellier state that every effort is being made to rescue the workmen buried by the accident in the Lalls Mine; and that it was hoped by the evening of the 14th communication…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 December 1861 · page 2
A GENTLEMAN from the country informs us that on Wednesday, the 11th instant, about one o'clock in the day, a terrific fall of hail and ice took place, commencing in the Southern district, and travelling westward. The morning had been oppressively hot…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 December 1861 · page 3
THE telegraphic despatches from Montpellier state that every effort is being made to rescue the workmen buried by the accident in the Lalle Mine; and that it was hoped by the evening of the 14th…
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